29 h. ago Mark Zuckerberg’s property empire is conquering neighborhoods while tipping his hat to Trump: Inside his real estate takeovers

Mark Zuckerberg, the world’s third-richest man, has recently come under fire for buying up nearly a dozen houses to build a compound in Palo Alto. Months earlier, he acquired a D.C. home for his collection. Madeline Sherratt dives into the lavish digs in the tech executive’s real estate empire.

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30 h. ago Donald Trump caught on 'hot mic' sharing his real thoughts about Putin

The US president was overheard speaking to French President Emmanuel Macron at the start of a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a number of European leaders

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30 h. ago Donald Trump caught on 'hot mic' saying real thoughts about Vladimir Putin

Some comments made by the US President in an unguarded moment with French President Emmanuel Macron were picked up on a microphone

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3 d. ago Mark Zuckerberg’s property empire unmasked. Here’s everything we know, from where they are to how much he splurged on them

Mark Zuckerberg, the world’s third-richest man, has recently come under fire for buying up nearly a dozen houses to build a compound in Palo Alto. Months earlier, he acquired a D.C. home for his collection. Madeline Sherratt dives into the lavish digs in the tech executive’s real estate empire.

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4 d. ago Trump says 'will head home real fast' warning he will 'walk' if Putin meeting goes wrong

The US President has been vocal in his demands for a ceasefire between Russia and the Ukraine and has revealed what he would do if the summit goes wrong

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6 d. ago Of course Mark Zuckerberg is still doing good works – he’s just switched up the definition of ‘good’ | Emma Brockes

Who has the time to help underprivileged children when you have a pickleball court and a president to attend to?If you put it in a novel – a ham-fisted satire of tech overlord hypocrisy, say – it would look too contrived to fly. But here we are, absorbing a story from the New York Times this week in which Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are discovered to have been running a private school out of their compound in Palo Alto, California, in violation of city zoning laws. More pertinently, the school of 14 kids, which includes two of the couple’s three daughters, is less than a mile from the school for low-income families that the couple founded in 2016. Guess which school the world’s second-richest man and his wife are shutting down?Say the word “zoning infraction” to a certain stripe of American and the effect is equal to using “queue jumper” on a Briton, but of course the broader point here isn’t one about permits. (A spokesperson for Zuckerberg and Chan told the newsp...

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7 d. ago Trump’s military takeover of Washington DC is a sheer demonstration of power | Moira Dongan

No one believes that the deployment of troops to America’s most liberal, most racially diverse, and most culturally thriving cities is about solving a real problemPresident Trump imposed a military takeover of the nation’s capital on Monday, sending National Guard troops to Washington. He also seized control of the DC municipal police department, invoking an obscure section of the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act which allows the president to take control of local law enforcement in the district for a period of one month in times of emergency.That there is no emergency is irrelevant: Trump has declared one in order to exercise powers that are only available to him in a state of exception, which is, of course, what the whole country increasingly finds itself to be experiencing as the president expands the powers of his office from those of a constitutional executive into something more like the power of authoritarian control.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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8 d. ago How Mark Zuckerberg upended a quiet California neighborhood to maintain his own private paradise

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has completely upended a once idyllic California neighborhood in order to build his own private compound, residents say.

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1 week ago Frying pan horror 'murder' after doctor wife found out about estranged husband's secret property empire

Irene Gaw-Lai, 56, was found in the torched den of the San Marino home where she and her estranged husband Yoon 'Kevin' Lai, 63, shared twin 16-year-old boys in January.

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1 week ago Voices: What would it take for you to work for Mark Zuckerberg?

As a computer scientist’s ‘no thanks’ to a billion-dollar pay package goes viral, James Moore says that when you’re already sought-after in a cutting-edge tech sector, there’s more to life than an eye-watering salary

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1 week ago Top Trump aide hints at real possibility aliens exist as team 'hunts for truth'

Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has told a podcaster that she believes aliens could possibly be real and that she has 'a lot of questions'

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2 w. ago Why a young Aussie has rejected a $1billion offer from Mark Zuckerberg

Perth-raised University of Sydney graduate Andrew Tulloch has refused a huge offer from Mark Zuckerberg.

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2 w. ago White House officials rush to defend Trump after shaky economic week

US trade representative says ‘the president is the president’ after firing of labor statistics chief amid slow job growthDonald Trump administration officials fanned out on Sunday’s US political shows to defend the president’s policies after a bruising week of poor economic, trade and employment numbers that culminated with the firing of labor statistics chief Erika McEntarfer.US trade representative Jamieson Greer said Trump has “real concerns” about the jobs numbers that extend beyond Friday’s report that showed the national economy added 73,000 jobs in July, far below expectations. Job growth numbers were revised down by 285,000 for the two previous months as well. Continue reading...

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